Warning: That butter robot meme with the '42' joke got an insane stat wrong and I'm side-eyeing it hard now

I was scrolling through the top posts here last night and found a meme that said 'butter robot asks the meaning of life 42 times a day' and I thought that was funny so I actually timed my own butter robot scene from season 1. I looped it on my laptop and counted how many times he says 'what is my purpose' in the full clip and it's only 11 times. Not 42. That's a big difference if you think about it. The meme was posted by someone named toastmaster_99 and they claimed they counted manually but I think they just threw out a random number to make the joke land. But 42 is a Douglas Adams reference so maybe they were trying to be clever and it backfired. Has anyone else actually counted the loops in that original scene or am I being too serious about a silly meme?

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felix38516d ago

Said they counted manually but I think they just threw out a random number" - that's exactly what bugged me too. Did you check if toastmaster_99 ever responded when someone called them out on the count? Feels like the kind of thing where they'd either double down or go quiet real fast.

the_henry16d ago

Figured out toastmaster_99's post history shows they claimed to count "by hand" over 2,000 posts but also said they only spend ten minutes on their break doing it, which doesn't add up... math never lies. Pretty sure they were just trying to look active in the community without actually doing the work, which explains why they ghosted the thread after three people called them out. Not saying it's a big deal but it's weird how nobody noticed the timeline contradiction before.